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table of contents
Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire
- Understanding militarism
- A peaceable kingdom?
- Tradition and technology
- Sources and structure
- Notes
- 1. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire
- The Navy League and the command of the sea
- The origins of the Air League of the British Empire
- The Navy and Air Leagues after 1918
- The Navy League
- The Air League
- Finances, funding and the far right
- The Navy League, the Air League and officialdom
- Women in the Navy and Air Leagues
- Charity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2. Disarmament, collective security and internationalism
- ‘Pacifist tendencies’
- The Navy League
- The Air League
- Organised militarism and the League of Nations Union
- ‘Insidious pacifist propaganda’
- The World Disarmament Conference, the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the Second London Naval Treaty
- The Air League
- The Navy League
- An international air police force and the internationalisation of civil aviation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3. Rearmament, the merchants of death and the preparation for war
- Nerve centres and the knock-out blow
- ‘Remember the power of the newest bombs’
- The Navy League and ‘air protagonists’
- The many air leagues
- The merchants of death
- The Air League, rearmament and defence from the air
- The Navy League, the Merchant Navy and the preparation for war
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4. Nation and empire
- Islandhood and insularity
- Pride, patriotism and technology
- Trade, communication and security
- Empire, imperial exhibitions and education
- Branches beyond Britain
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5. Militarism, education and youth
- Youth and education
- The Sea Cadet Corps and the Air Defence Cadet Corps
- Physical culture and masculinity
- Militarism
- Recruitment
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6. Trafalgar Day: naval heritage, tradition and national commemoration
- Origins and invention
- Ceremony, ritual and commemoration
- Trafalgar Day and the First World War at sea
- Local commemoration
- The Navy League and naval theatre
- Navalism and Nelson Day messages
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7. Empire Air Day: aerial theatre and airmindedness
- Aerial theatre before Empire Air Day
- ‘At home’ with the RAF
- Airmindedness and the militarisation of British youth
- Empire and nation
- Reception and responses
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Epilogue: organised militarism and the Second World War
- The Navy League
- The Air League
- Notes
- Appendix I: Navy League Executive Committee, c.1918–39
- President
- Deputy President
- Chairman
- General Secretary
- Honorary Treasurer
- Appendix II: Air League Executive Committee, c.1918–39
- President
- Secretary
- Secretary General
- Chairman
- Vice/Deputy-Chairman
- Honorary Treasurer
- Deputy Honorary Treasurer
- Bibliography
- Primary sources
- Air League, London
- Ball State University, Archives and Special Collections, Muncie, Indiana
- Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- British Library, London
- British Library of Political and Economic Science, London
- Cambridge University Library, Manuscripts Reading Room
- Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
- City of Westminster Archives Centre, London
- East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office at The Keep
- Hull History Centre
- Imperial College Archives, London
- Imperial War Museum, London
- Sound Archive
- International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College London
- London Metropolitan University
- Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry
- National Aerospace Library (Royal Aeronautical Society), Farnborough
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
- National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh
- Northumberland Archives, Woodhorn
- Nuffield College, University of Oxford
- Parliamentary Archives, London
- Peace Pledge Union Archive, London
- Portsmouth History Centre
- Royal Air Force Museum, London
- Royal Archives, Windsor
- The London Archives
- The National Archives, Kew
- Select newspapers and periodicals
- Official papers and published documents
- Hansard
- Reports
- Books, articles and pamphlets
- Published diaries and memoirs
- Digital resources
- Newsreels
- Secondary sources
- Books
- Articles
- Unpublished theses
- Index